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 This is the historical novela which takes place in the states of
Guanajuato and Taxco in Mexico during the late 1800s to the early 1900.
Los Plateados is about the bandits who call themselves Los Plateados,
which means the silver plated ones. The band consists of three brothers
and a sister. The head of the band is Gabriel. He is also the oldest of
his brothers. He falls in love with Camila, the wife of Emilio
Gallardo, a strong willed man who also sleeps around with many women,
including Camila's older sister Luciana. Camila is also in love with
Gabriel, although she is married to Emilio. Camila is forced to marry
Emilio because her family needs financial support that Emilio can
provide. On the day of Camila's wedding she is kidnapped by Gabriel and
taken to the woods. Although nothing happens between them, Gabriel sets
Camila free. After that encounter Camila and Gabriel begin falling for
each other. The purpose of Los Plateados is to bring justice to the
ones who are opposed. Los Plateados is like a group of Robin Hood. The
other purpose of Los Plateados is to revenge for Ximena's father, who
died many years ago.
Characters
Tamara Montserrat as Camila Castañeda de Gallardo
Rivas
Camila marries Emilio for the sake of her mother
only. She is a dreamy and timid girl, but an experienced horsewoman. She is
keen on literature and she shares her thoughts with her companion Xóchitl. She
is well educated. When she falls in love with Gabriel Campuzano, she starts
glowing from inside with beauty and delight. She writes love letters to him, as
a leader of a gang band delivered to him by Xóchitl. When Emilio finds her
letters, he causes to humiliate her in merciless manner. Gabriel is the one who
saves her pretending he is a wealthy landowner who is looking for a land to
build a farm to be close to his beloved.
Humberto Zurita as Emilio Gallardo
Emilio is the
grand lord to its highest extent, powerful, manipulative, severe and merciless. He is too affectionate
with Camila, his wife. Though she is a young and beautiful woman, he decides to
sleep separately from her to freely keeepn on leading the style of life he is
used yo. In particular, he is pleased to go for keeping secret relations with
Luciana, Camila’s elder sister.
Camila was selected among other girls as the future
mother for his children and especially the son, the heir. He thinks he has the
only son Toñito, born by Dolores, his loyal servant but he was a legitimized
relations with his children.
Mauricio Islas as Gabriel Campuzano
Gabriel Campuzano is the head of the gang. The gang
consists of Gabriel, his siblings later joined by Leonardo Villegas. They are local
landowners. Gabriel and Tomás, his sibling, served in the army. They decided to
carry off their younger brothers and sisters and make a gang to protect
themselves to keep the honor of their family.
Gabriel Campuzano is a coarse and pitiless person
who takes revenge of unjustice to him and his family. Being an adventurous and
romantic person, though, Gabriel masters horse riding and shoots perfectly as none
in the place. He is in love with Camila, the wife to a wealthy person.
Dominika Paleta as Luciana Castañeda
Luciana Castañeda, Camila’s sistern is a secret
lover of Emilio, her husband. She always competes with her sister, She is
rough, scheming and smart, to constantly play a double role in the family and
smiling to her sister in face, sleeping with her husband. She is so mean to
destroy the marriage of her sister and her lover, revealing the truth about
Camila and Gabriel and arousing the conflict of the wealth and power. Emilio
acts differently than she intended since then only he decides to be the only
man in Camila’s life after revealing she loves Gabriel.
Rodrigo Oviedo as Tomás Campuzano
Tomás Campuzano is too prudent, treacherous and
ambitious man. His intentions are dark. He feels affection along with envy to
his elder brother, since his ambitions force him be the first and lead the
gang. Tomás is very impulsive to lead people though he has a vision of how
things to be done and thus, he causes people ignore orders made by Gabriel. The
way he competes with Gabriel can bring problems both to him and his brother,
though they do everything as a family. He does not recognize Leonardo as part
of the gang and he makes the relations between him and his sister destroyed for
his feelings’ sake. He has a love affair with Eva though he is afraid to love
her openly.
Angélica Celayo as Ximena Campuzano
Ximena is a real amazon woman, incisive and
decisive. She is strong and well prepared to physical loads, though she is
beautiful and very attractive. She is proud of her brothers to be manly and audacious.
With the lapse of time she is expert in facial expressions and she can easily
manipulate people and win situations due to her skills, especially when she
needs to conceal her feelings to a certain guy to her brothers. She can handle
rifles and other weapons easily. She is in relations with Leonardo and she
gradually comes to the decision to change the mode of her life for another
society and rules.
Los Plateados - telenovela
(2005) - Mauricio Islas, Tamara Monserrat
CAST
Mauricio Islas .... Gabriel
Tamara Monserrat .... Camila
Dominika Paleta .... Luciana
Humberto Zurita .... Emilio
Rodrigo Oviedo .... Tomas
Angélica Celaya .... Ximena
Marta Aura .... Augusta
Claudia Lobo .... Irene
Gloria Peralta .... Samia
Teresa Tuccio .... Isabel
Eduardo Victoria .... Andres
Alvaro Guerrero
Wendy de los Cobos
Juan Carlos Martin del Campo
Guillermo Quintanilla
Héctor Arredondo .... Leonardo Villegas
Rocio Verdejo
Alberto Guerra
Michelle Vargas
Writing credits
Leticia López
Directed by
Epigmenio Ibarra
Produced by
Walter Doehner
Telemundo, Argos Producciones
Trivia
"Los Plateados" is a remake of telenovela "Los Pincheira" (Chile, 2004) with Francisco Reyes and Paz Bascuñán.
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